Curry and her husband, Brian Ross, (not that Brian Ross), had long been renovating the four-story row-house--which they purchased in 2003--but were forced to halt construction because of building violations and complaints from litigious neighbors, who were none-too-pleased to discover a hobo living there Sunday morning, the Post reports. They called the cops to escort him off the premises, marking the second such eviction to occur on the property. (Cops reportedly kicked out a different homeless man earlier this year.)
Curry, along with fellow NBC News anchor Brian Williams and--wait for it--"Sesame Street"'s Big Bird, just helped a children's television network kick off a new campaign about "kindness" on Monday. Could it be that Curry, who currently lives in a doorman building in Gramercy Park, had quietly been extending some kindness to the down-and-out New Yorker who has been dwelling in her unfinished abode for 12 months?
Doubtful.
"Ann Curry means crap to me!" the man told the Post, explaining: "The reason I lived there was because they chased me out of Central Park. ... I'm not a drug addict; I just don't have a place to sleep."

Next Spring not only high buildings wil be much offended as 80 y. ago, but also railways will have much delays.... Most of todays bread and butter consumers, wil probably not live to age of "Free Energy". Pity, but You all have supported this system, and although it is on colapse, You support it further without a view to change it yourself. Only in Germany some people from NPD, former East Germany mostly,(where alte germanische Seele was first through Rudolf Steiner was discovered) are searching for new way, and are criticized for. 

    The world is hell bound for another dark age.  Dark ages are the result of population to natural rescourse ratio.  Times get tight and everybody buys a bigger gun and society becomes fragmented.  The only way for man to survive as a species at present population never mind the 700,000 per day added to the rock, is to no longer rely on the plunder of nature but the mimicking of nature.  Unless we begin immediately to change over from fossil fuels to man made fuels all is lost.  Hydrogen produced by a solar farm in Arizona could power a developing community in Africa.  Consumer nations suddenly become producer nations.  Windfarms are great when the wind is blowing like in the islands located in the tradewinds.  But none of it is any good if we dont convert it into a fuel that can be stored shipped and used as needed.  The problems all the green tech suffers from is it comes and goes.  Plants figured this out a long time ago and produce fuels which we are running out of.  I cant believe any executive at an energy company didnt see this shit happening and hasnt bought heavily into renewable energy scources and ways to synthesise and distribute hydrogen.

It amazes me to learn the following.With the materials we already have we could have a lunar space elevator.While we still have to wait for a material that strong enough for use on the earth's space elevator.
Because of the Moon's lower gravity and lack of atmosphere, a lunar elevator would have less stringent requirements for the tensile strength of the material making up its cable than an Earth-tethered cable. An Earth-based elevator would require high strength-to-weight materials that are theoretically possible, but not yet fabricated in practice (e.g., carbon nanotubes). Whereas, a lunar elevator could be constructed using high-strength commercially available materials such as Kevlar or Spectra.
Compared to Earth, there would be fewer geographic and political restrictions on the location of the surface connection. The connection point of a lunar elevator would not necessarily have to be directly under its center of gravity, and could even be near the poles, where evidence suggests there might be frozen water in deep craters that never see sunlight; if so, this might be collected and converted into rocket fuel.
Jerome Pearson has proposed a cable design using M5 fiber (See Materials, below) that would have a mass of 6,100 tonnes including a massive counterweight, that would be capable of lifting or depositing loads of 2,000 newtons (450 lbf, or at lunar surface gravity, masses of 1233 kg / 2700 lbm) at the base. The counterweight could potentially be lifted from the lunar surface.
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The idea of space elevators has been around since 1960 when Yuri Artsutanov wrote a Sunday supplement to Pravda on how to build such a structure and the utility of geosynchronous orbit. His article however, was not known in the West. Then in 1966, John Isaacs, a leader of a group of American Oceanographers at Scripps Institute, published an article in Science about the concept of using thin wires hanging from a geostationary satellite. In that concept, the wires were to be thin (thin wires/tethers are now understood to be more susceptible to micrometeoroid damage). Like Artsutanov, Isaacs’ article also wasn’t well known to the aerospace community. In 1975, Jerome Pearson independently came up with the concept and published it in Acta Astronautica. That made the aerospace community at large aware of the space elevator for the first time. His article inspired Sir Arthur Clarke to write the novel The Fountains of Paradise. Later, Pearson extended his theory to the moon and changed to using the Lagrangian points instead of having it in geostationary orbit.
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Whereas, a lunar elevator could be constructed using high-strength commercially available materials such as Kevlar or Spectra.  So what the hell are we waiting for???Permission from MOM? Its time we do some growing up!!!I see the space elevator as a way to bring space travel to the common man.A way to boost our economies 500 to 1000 times what it is.While an earth based space elevator is still waitng for a material strong enough we could go ahead and build a lunar space elevator with what we have today here in aug.16th, 2011.
That would put to an end any dark age that might be coming.                                                                                            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator     triffid